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Introduction to Smart Devices for Orthopaedic Surgery
Prof. Dr.-Ing. L.-P. Nolte
Abstract In the field of surgical devices, i.e. instruments and implants a rather conservative attitude of orthopaedic device manufacturers and surgeons can be identified. This is in contrast to related pure technological areas, where a quantum leap of innovation has been observed in the past decade. In particular there have been groundbreaking developments in fields such as robotics, mechatronics, micro-sensor and actuator technology, microelectronics, systems technology, etc. A vast number of corresponding laboratory prototypes have emerged into successful engineering products in large scale markets, such as consumer electronics, cars, etc. Transfer of these engineering technologies into the medical arena may provide new opportunities for medical applications. In the future they hold potential to further optimize the treatment loop, i.e. the way we diagnose, plan, simulate, execute, document and evaluate a surgical procedure. In this presentation an overview is given of the state of the art in research and development on smart surgical devices. Special focus is on their use in orthopaedic interventions.
Biography Lutz-Peter Nolte is
professor for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics at the University of
Bern, Switzerland. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 1980 and 1983. During 1984-87 he
headed the Nonlinear Shell Research Group at the Institute of Mechanics
of the Ruhr-University Bochum, working in the field of elastic and
elasto-plastic deformations of thin-walled engineering structures. From
1987 to 1990 he established the Orthopaedic Research Group at the
Ruhr-University Bochum focussing his work on spinal biomechanics. In
1990 Dr. Nolte joined the Bioengineering Center at Wayne State
University in Detroit, MI, USA as an Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering. In collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery he
extended the scope of his research to computer aided surgery. In 1993 he
took over the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Division at the MEM Institute for
Biomechanics in Bern. Since 2001 Dr. Nolte is co-director of the Swiss
National Center for Competence in Research “Computer Aided and Image
Guided Medical Interventions” (www.co-me.ch) located at the ETHZ. In
2002 he became the co-director of the MEM Research Center for
Orthopaedic Surgery and the director of the Institute for Surgical
Technology and Biomechanics at the Medical Faculty of the University of
Bern. Since 2007 he is the director of the newly founded Artificial
Organ Center for Biomedical Engineering Research (www.artorg.unibe.ch)
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Volker Koch, 01/2009 |